Improvement in pipe-tongs and cut tee



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TO ALL WI-IOM IT MAY CONCERN:

BeA it know'n that I, JOHN PEACE, of Camden, in the county of Camden, and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and improved Pipe-Tongs and Cutter and I do hereby declare that the follen'ingis affull, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the saine, reforence being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification. v

The present invention relates to a pair of tongs suitable for both screwing or turning pipes or tubesfand also for cutting off the saine, and the invention consists in combining, with one jaw of the tongs, a double-ended adjustable steel socket, having a series of griping edges at each end, any one of which can be used by turning it toward the pipe, the said soeliet being susceptible of adjustment upon the jaw of the tongs, so as to enable the tongs to receive different sizes of pipes. In addition to the above for cutting off pipes, this invention also eonsists in combining with the steel socket a bridle ofsnitable shape to fit about the same and over the other jaw `of` the tongs, and provided with -a thumb or set-screw in such manner 'that said socket can be presented diagonally toward theppe, presenting a sharp point thereto, so that by turning or swinging the tongs about the pipe such pipe will be eut oil thereby. In the accompanying plateo drawings my improved pipe-tongs and cutter is illustrated#- Figure I being a side or face view of the tongs, with the bridle applied thereto'.

Figure 2, asimilar view to iig. 1, but with the bridle removed; and

Figure 3, a plan or top view of the bridle detached.

A A, in the drawings, represent the arms or handles ofthe tongs pivoted together at B, so that their outer ends, C, can be opened from each other or brought together by properly manipulating the handle ends of such arms therefor. One of the ends, C, is made-of a. hook shape, so as to more peri'eetlyt about and around a pipe or tube. D, a steel socket screwed by one and upon the screw-shat`t or spindle E of one of the jaws, which socket, nt each end, along its sides or edges F, is made sharp so as to tightly grip or hold a. pipe or tube between it and the inside of' the hook-shaped arm or end of the other handle. With the double-ended socket, when sides of one endhare become worn, it can be reversed in position upon the screw-spindle E. When a pipe or tube is tobe out bil', the steel socket' is to be presented toward the same in a diagonal position, with its corner against it, when, by means of a bridle', G, shown in g. 3 'more particularly, it is there rmly held by securing Buell bridle to the tongs through its set or thumb-screw E. This bridle is eut out at I, of a. square shape, so'as to fit over the steel socket, and thus bold it from turning, While at its other end it is cut out of aireotangulnr shape to pass over the hook-shaped end of the tongs, where, by the set-seranr I-I, it is secured, as is obvious without any further explanation. With the bridle upon the tongs, as above described, and the steel socketl by its corner against the tube or pipe,`if such tongs be thentightly grasped in the hand and turned or swung around, said pipe or tube will be eut off thereby.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A pair of pipe-tongs having an adjustable screw E, socket D, with a. series of griping edges zit each end, substantially as and-for the purpose described. i

The above specification of my intiention signed by me this day of ISGS.

' JOHN PEAGE.

4'tlitnesses :A

J'Auns M. CAssADY, FRANK BOARDMAN. 

